Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5 August 2021 – With a spirit of curiosity driving analytics innovation for more than four decades, SAS continues to prioritize corporate citizenship and pairing technology with advocacy to guide its business and climate strategy. In addition to helping customers with their green business initiatives and sustainability needs, SAS has a long-standing reputation for supporting clean energy and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) while also using its software to address economic, social and environmental issues.
“This past year has shown us how closely connected we are and how we can truly make an impact by working together,” said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. “At SAS, we know the power of technology in helping find better answers to drive better decisions – decisions that protect our environment, save lives and make our world a better, safer place with a more sustainable future.”
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - 5 August 2021 — Xero, the global small business platform, today unveiled the Xero App Store, a reimagined and easier way for small businesses, accountants and bookkeepers to discover and purchase apps to help run their business, while helping app partners grow on the Xero platform.
The Xero App Store is available at apps.xero.com and delivers on Xero’s aspiration for more customers to access and benefit from the power of Xero connected apps.
From today, Xero app partners in Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand will have access to a suite of new subscription and billing APIs (Xero App Store Subscriptions) that will enable them to offer Xero customers the ability to trial, purchase and manage their app from the Xero App Store. This will be available in the US and Canada in the next 12 months, followed by Asia and South Africa.
[Singapore/Hong Kong, August 5, 2021] Huawei announced its plan to invest US$100 million in startup support at the inaugural HUAWEI CLOUD Spark Founders Summit, which took place simultaneously in Singapore and Hong Kong. Huawei said the investment would go towards its Spark Program in the Asia Pacific region, which aims to build a sustainable startup ecosystem for the region over the next three years. Huawei has been helping Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand build their startup hubs.
At the summit, Huawei also announced that this program would focus its efforts on developing four additional startup hubs – in Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam – with the overarching aim of recruiting a total of 1,000 startups into the Spark accelerator program and shaping 100 of them into scaleups.
